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The writer of Motherless Brooklyn and The Fortress of Solitude dividends with a devilishly entertaining novel about an international backgammon hustler who feels he's psychic. Too bad about the tumor in his face. Handsome, impeccably tuxedoed Bruno Alexander journeys the world receiving large sums of money from amateur "whales" who think they can task his peerless acumen at backgammon. Fronted by his pasty, vampiric manager, Edgar Falk, Bruno will come in Berlin following a troubling run of bad luck in Singapore. Perhaps it was the chance encounter with his crass years as a child acquaintance Keith Stolarsky and his smoldering lover, Tira Harpaz. Or perhaps it was the emergence of your blot that distorts his eyesight so he must look at the table sideways. Things don't go far better in Berlin. Bruno's flirtation with Madchen, the dazzling blonde he fits on the ferry, is inconclusive; the overall game at the unsettling Herr Kohler's mansion should go awry as his blot grows up worse; and he passes out which is sent to the local hospital, where he is given an exceptionally depressing examination. Having tell you Falk's money, Bruno turns to Stolarsky, who, for reasons of his own, agrees to journey Bruno to Berkeley and pay for the experimental surgery that might save his life. Berkeley, where Bruno found out his psychic ability, and which he vowed to never give back. Amid the patchouli flashbacks and anarchist gambits of the local arena, between Tira's come-ons and Keith's machinations, Bruno confronts two existential questions: Is the gambler being played by life? And imagine if you're telepathic, but it doesn't do you worthwhile?
